'The Bachelor' Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi split

jakevienna.jpgView full sizeJake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi being their classy selves at Perez Hilton's birthday party, in March.

Prepare yourselves, people.

and

the pair who promised each other undying love, yadda yadda yadda on the last season of "The Bachelor," have ended their (cough)

as E! Online reported.

We would be tempted to ignore this completely unsurprising bit of "celebrity" news, but let's not forget that dweebola Jake passed up a chance at

for Vienna. Our Oregon home gal, it seems, dodged

t.

This momentous development has

with a story from "insiders" (judging from celeb mags and gossip sites,

"insiders"

seem to be the ultimate California renewable resource) touching on Jake's appearance on

and other folderol:

When we talked with

for our April story,

she sounded like was much better off without Jake. But our Oregon "Bachelor" veteran is returning to the "Bachelor" fold. In a recent issue of Us Magazine,

is listed as one of 19

from "The Bachelor" and

featured in a spinoff called

" The group will live together in a house and compete in "game show-style elimination challenges" for $250,000. It's set to debut Aug. 9.

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